Peter Grant Quotes

#1. Peter Grant,' I said. 'Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame.

Ben Aaronovitch

#2. Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

Peter R. Grant

#3. My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.

Trevor Huddleston

#4. To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

Peter R. Grant

#5. The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

Peter R. Grant

#6. I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks.

Ben Aaronovitch

#7. The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Peter R. Grant

#8. Bollocks, I thought, or testiculi or possibly testiculos if we were using the accusative.

Ben Aaronovitch

#9. I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Peter Capaldi

#10. I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.

Peter Guber

#11. Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

Peter R. Grant

#12. A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

Peter Temple

#13. From then on, it was even twistier B-roads through a country so photgenically rural that I half expected to meet Bilbo Baggins around the next corner - providing he'd taken to driving a Nissan Micra.

Ben Aaronovitch

#14. Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

Peter R. Grant

#15. Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.

Richard Armour

#16. At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

Peter Stone

#17. Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.

Peter R. Grant

#18. Their kiss was like a paper airplane landing on the moon.

Tom Robbins

#19. I'm keeping an open mind as always, because that's what you have to do.

Amber Heard

#20. Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

Karin Slaughter

#21. Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.

Peter R. Grant

#22. The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

Peter R. Grant

#23. Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.

Terence McKenna

#25. Abigail stared suspiciously at Lesley. "Why are you wearing a mask?" she asked.
"Because my face fell off," said Lesley.
Abigail considered this for a moment and then nodded. "Okay," she said.

Ben Aaronovitch

#26. I'm feeling lucky like a four-leaf clover

Jennifer Lopez

#27. We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Peter R. Grant

#28. So that's when I came up with the most ridiculous plan since I'd decided to take a witness statement from a ghost. It was a plan so stupid that even Baldrick would have rejected it out of hand.

Ben Aaronovitch

#29. The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

Leon Trotsky

#30. Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

Peter R. Grant

#31. Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Peter R. Grant

#32. Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

Ben Aaronovitch

#33. Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

Ben Aaronovitch

#34. Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

Peter R. Grant

#35. But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

Sarah Dessen

#36. I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Kent Beck

#37. Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

Jeb Bush

#38. Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

Peter R. Grant

#39. I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting".
"Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?

Ben Aaronovitch

#40. The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

Peter R. Grant

#41. Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

Peter R. Grant